Hollywood veteran actress Jodie Foster (63) fired a blunt salvo at Brad Pitt–starring hit film 'F1,' saying "it seems like it was made by AI," drawing attention.
According to the Daily Mail's report on the 2nd (local time), Jodie Foster attended this week's Aspen Ideas Festival and had an in-depth conversation with former Sony chief Michael Lynton about changes in the Hollywood film industry and the impact of AI.
During the conversation, Jodie Foster directly mentioned the box-office hit F1 and did not spare criticism. She prefaced by saying, "This is not meant as a criticism. It is true that this film earned millions of dollars," while also expressing her view: "But when you see a film like F1, you think 'could this have been made by AI?'"
Familiar to domestic audiences for The Silence of the Lambs, she went on to say, "The structure of that film was exactly the conventional structure you learn in school," sharply noting, "The actors' lines also flowed as if the computer wrote them at precisely the right timing."
The film F1 was directed by Joseph Kosinski, who directed Top Gun: Maverick, with a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, and starred Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, among others, generating great attention. It was released in June last year and earned an enormous global box-office revenue of $634,100,000 (about Hanwha 870 billion won), and was recognized for its quality, receiving the Academy Award for sound among four Oscar nominations.
In past interviews, director Kosinski said, "Audiences can tell the difference between the real and the manufactured," asserting that he emphasized practical effects to bring vitality, such as filming racing scenes on location at the Grand Prix in just a few minutes. Screenwriter Kruger also completed the scenario after receiving feedback from legendary racer Lewis Hamilton. Even though the production team poured their efforts into realism, to Jodie Foster the result appeared overly formulaic and perfectly calculated, looking instead like "a product pieced together by a computer."
Jodie Foster also delivered a weighty message about job displacement caused by AI adoption in Hollywood. She said, "We are actually replacing people," criticizing the reality of using AI replication technology instead of hiring background performers (extras). She emphasized, "Hollywood unions and others must rightly demand, 'If you use my actor's skill 20 times, pay for it 20 times.' Above all, it is most important that we in the film industry do not become dominated by AI technology but lead it."
Recently in Hollywood, fierce backlash has continued over AI adoption, such as the controversy over Netflix reproducing the late Gene Wilder's voice, while some defend it as a solution to fix broken production processes, leading to a heated debate. Amid this, Jodie Foster's recent jab at F1 is likely to bring the film industry's concerns about the boundary between artistry and technology to the surface once again.<
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